2nd February 2021 Archive • The Register

2nd > February > 2021 Archive

Accused of underpaying or snubbing women and Asian techies, Google spends pocket change to make it all go away

You, yes, thousands of you, take this $4m and get back to work

02 Feb 02:25 | 24

In the old days, coups started by seizing TV and radio stations. Now they crimp the internet at 3am

And yes, that's what happened in Myanmar this week

02 Feb 03:00 | 19

Synology to enforce use of validated disks in enterprise NAS boxes. And guess what? Only its own disks exceed 4TB

NAS spinner's drives are Toshiba tin with custom firmware

02 Feb 04:58 | 108

Virtual cycling service bans riders for doping – doping their data, that is

Lycra louts fiddled files to make them faster, but automation overtook their antics

02 Feb 05:58 | 61

Nominet boardroom battle may already be over as campaign to oust management hits critical milestone

UK internet registry faces uphill battle to restore member trust

02 Feb 07:06 | 36

Incoming Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger reveals he was offered board seat before sudden pitch for top job

Advice to next vCEO: Execute the plan, faster

02 Feb 07:29 | 5

Spanish banished: Google Chrome to snub Camerfirma for lax cert management

Mozilla meanwhile wants to continue compliance discussions with security certificate vendor

02 Feb 08:02 | 4

Met Office tenders for £30m data science deals to build 'future of operational meteorology'

Fancy re-engineering code used to 'simulate weather and climate' for the next generations of supercomputers?

02 Feb 09:08 | 5

Clearing up this mesh: Linkerd creator 'not a fan' of steering committees but went ahead and made one anyway

Group aims to represent 'the voice of the user'

02 Feb 10:07 | 1

Spare a thought for Asos.com techies: Topshop acquisition coincides with deadline for global retail system go-live

Impeccable timing

02 Feb 11:02 | 6

Bork!Bork!Bork!

Death Becomes It: Who put the Blue in the Blue Screen of Death?

Just a coincidence or a call-back to borks of Windows past?

02 Feb 12:07 | 68

Slack fingers AWS auto-scaling failure in January outage postmortem

'We attempted to add 1,200 servers to our web tier' – but with a saturated network it did no good

02 Feb 12:51 | 3

Going underground with Scaleway's Apple M1-as-a-Service: Mac Minis descend into Paris nuclear bunker

Company reckons setup is 'first of its kind in Europe'

02 Feb 13:39 | 35

Atos shares rebound briefly as biz decides acquiring DXC is probably not worth the bother

HPE cut off its own arm to escape infrastructure services

02 Feb 14:08 | 10

There's no 'I' in Teams so Microsoft issues 6-month warning for laggards still on Skype for Business Online

The axeman cometh

02 Feb 14:48 | 39

Funding frenzy from AWS, Microsoft, Google, Salesforce pumps ex-Hadoop wrangler Databricks' value to $28bn

Oof, that's gotta hurt for Cloudera, which is sitting at a paltry $4.6bn

02 Feb 15:28 | 2

In Rust we trust: Shoring up Apache, ISRG ditches C, turns to wunderkind lang for new TLS crypto module

Elder server httpd to be revitalized with Google-funded memory-safe add-on

02 Feb 16:30 | 121

Microsoft's Azure Quantum hits preview: Not so much quantum computing as it is quantum-inspired computing

You'll have to go to one of Redmond's partners for something less simulated

02 Feb 18:02 | 10

ESA signs off on three more service modules for Moon mission – despite agency boss casting doubt on 2024 landing

Director General injects some reality into the lunar landing schedule

02 Feb 19:24 | 20

Amazon coughs up $62m to shoo away claims it stole driver tips, cut pay rates without telling them

What a lovely company

02 Feb 20:34 | 38

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to step down this summer, AWS boss Andy Jassy to step up

Multibillionaire founder channels Bill Gates, will become exec chairman of cloud giant with gift shop on the side

02 Feb 22:01 | 33

Musk see: Watch SpaceX's latest Starship rocket explode while trying to touch down

Still hoping to lob a zillionaire and three commoners into space in a commercial flight later this year

02 Feb 23:22 | 62

The Register Biting the hand that feeds IT

About Us

Our Websites

Your Privacy

Situation Publishing

Copyright. All rights reserved © 1998–2024